October 13, 2025, of complications from inclusion body myositis.

Bonnie Garrett, best known to Reedies as a director of private music instruction in the 2000s, was born in 1944 to George and Evelyn Jackson. She grew up on the family farm near Mt. Gilead, Ohio, which embodied not only Bonnie’s ancestral roots but also the influence of the Quaker traditions and values that animated Bonnie’s thinking throughout her life.

After college in Illinois, Bonnie’s graduate studies took her to Indiana University, where she met a fellow graduate student, Lee Garrett, whom she married in 1968. Together, they developed a keen interest in music of the 17th and 18th centuries and related performance practices.

March 29, 2025, in Portland, Oregon.

The first of two children born to Avis Janke and James Lever, Karen Marie Lever was born in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. Uninspired in school, her academic life was suddenly turned around when her father brought home a gas station copy of Wuthering Heights one day. She subsequently fell in love with art and literature, becoming the first person in her family to go to college.

Karen worked part-time jobs ranging from photo and illustrative fashion modeling for a Minneapolis department store to a summer decapitating chickens. She also won a scholarship to the University of Minnesota, followed by a full ride to Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master’s degree in literature and a PhD.

March 28, 2025

Claire was a cherished friend, daughter, sister, cousin, and niece who lived with deep care—for her family, friends, community, and the planet. A passionate reader and music lover, she found joy in language and culture, leading to her fluency in Hebrew and Bahasa Indonesia.

Claire and her twin brother, Hunter, were born in Berkeley in 2000. She attended Beach Elementary, Piedmont Middle, and Piedmont High, where she cocaptained the varsity volleyball team and was named second-team all-league. Her classmates voted her “Most Chill.”

January 13, 2025, in Eugene, Oregon, from brain cancer.

Elaine was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1958. Her father, Dennis DeMartin, was in the Foreign Service, and her mother, Monique Gourjon, was born in Paris and emigrated to the United States after marrying Dennis.

Most of Elaine’s childhood was spent overseas at the U.S. embassies that her parents were posted to. After Dennis died of a heart attack in South Africa, Monique joined the Foreign Service and moved her family to Morocco (and, eventually, Tunisia). Elaine was greatly influenced by her time living in North Africa and revisited many experiences in her memoirs and poetry.

June 19, 2025, in Washington DC, of a brain tumor.

A well-traveled economist, Wesley McGrew majored in international studies at Reed. He wrote his thesis, “Ethos Versus Opportunity: A Discussion of Entrepreneurial Development in Colbert’s France,” under Professor Peter Sinclair [economics 1976–77].

After graduating from Reed, Wes went on to study economics at the University of Chicago, earning a PhD. His work experiences included the U.S. Treasury and the IMF, serving as representative in Athens, Greece.

August 21, 2024, in Longview, Washington.

Born in Paris, France, Henry was raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He was a visionary drummer, an accomplished systems developer, an advocate for Pacific Northwest tribal fisheries, and a recognized authority on Bigfoot.

Henry wore “every hat in the data center.” In the 1980s, based in New York City, he was a systems developer for the Switzerland Cheese Association, building a series of computer systems to track the trade of Swiss Cheese between Switzerland and North America. Then, in the 1980s, he moved back to the Pacific Northwest to begin a two-decade career managing data systems in support of fisheries management and the protection and restoration of Columbia basin native fish.

July 19, 2025, from heart failure after an arduous fight against cancer.

Affectionately known as Doc, Doctor Cooper, Jan, GranJan, Coop, and Chief, Janelle Lunette Cooper impacted the lives of many as a physician, neurologist, teacher, advocate, and friend. She studied chemistry and Russian at Reed, writing her thesis under Professor Marshall Cronyn [chemistry 1952–89].

Born in 1955 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Robert and Madeline Cooper, Janelle attended Reed while working her way up the ranks as a nurse’s aide and medical technologist in Seattle, Washington. But it was at Reed that she met her first wife, with whom she had two children, Lena and Nicholas.

August 31, 2025

Randal Davis was a composer, arts administrator, archivist and historian. He majored in psychology, writing his thesis on phenomenology and schizophrenia with advising by Professor Linda J. Gummow [psychology].

After graduating from Reed, Randal worked at Portland Center for the Visual Arts and co-founded the influential new music group Concentration City. On his return to Oregon in 2007, he moved to Leland Iron Works, the studios and gardens of artists Lee Kelly and Bonnie Bronson. Randal managed their estates, writing monographs about their work and curating exhibitions.

January 26, 2024 in Oakland, California, of Alzheimer’s disease.

A musician who was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship, David Robert Widelock was born in Manhattan and lived in Greenwich Village (“i.e., I’m cool,” he said). He came to Reed in 1964 at the age of 16, ultimately graduating with a BA in literature.

While studying at Reed, David was the lead guitarist in the band Laura and the Vipers, headed by pianist and vocalist Laura Fisher ’68. He played with the group at Reed reunions in 1998, 1999, and 2003, and at a gig in 1999 at Smiley’s Schooner Saloon in Bolinas, California.

March 15, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia, from complications of surgery.

Marian Alice Langworthy was born in 1944, in Wendell, Idaho, about 100 miles southeast of Boise. Her father, Ed, was a fish culturist at the nearby U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish hatchery in Hagerman; her mother, Helen, was a public school teacher there.

In 1962, Marian arrived at Reed and began studying American literature. In a series of thumbnail memoirs that she called Langstoryworthy and gave to her daughter, she credited her art class with Professor Lloyd Reynolds [English and art, 1929–69] with stimulating her “reverence for the beautifully written word”—and, in later years, a commitment to daily meditation.